here - Yellowknife International Film Festival

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ykiff at a glance
monday, sept 28
Museum @ 7pm
Weetigo | Astray
Wedding on Mussel Island
Freeride
Museum @ 8pm
Yellowknife
tuesday, sept 29
Museum @ 7pm
Permafrost of the Peel Plateau
Aviliaq: Entwined
SOL
wed, sept 30
friday, oct 2
NACC @ 7pm
All the Time in the World
NACC @ 9pm
Les Loups (The Wolves)
saturday, oct 3
NACC @ 4pm
The Yawning | Hickey Gone Wrong
Within the Veil | Metis of the
North Slave | Bihttoš
The Bear | Jim Robb's Yukon
Ironhead | El Alpinista
Stock - A Short Film
A Winter Jingle
NACC @ 7pm
Wildlike
NACC @ 7pm
The Pass System
NACC @ 9pm
Fish Out of Water
Berkshire County
NACC @ 8:30pm
Turbo Kid
thursday, oct 1
NACC @ 6:30pm
Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre
(My Internship in Canada)
NACC @ 8:40pm
Shadow of a Giant
After the Last River
sunday, oct 4
Museum @ 1pm
Oscar Nominated Shorts 2015:
Animation
NACC @ 5pm
Way Up North:
An Arctic Symphony
NACC @ 7pm
L’Empreinte (Subtitles)
NACC @ 9pm
Daewit
Trapline
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about the Festival
The Yellowknife International Film Festival (YKIFF) is hosted
by Western Arctic Moving Pictures (WAMP), in the capital city
of Canada's Northwest Territories. YKIFF showcases film and
new media works from all over the Canadian and Circumpolar
North with selected international works.
The 9th annual festival is a celebration of the best of Northwest Territories
Film and films relevant to circumpolar audiences while supporting
the growing infrastructure in the Northwest Territories. We must take
the time to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our local writers,
directors and producers who are creating great work against the odds
in a harsh environment.
The film festival in partnership with the NWT Professional Media Association
(NWTPMA) strives to provide valuable professional development opportunities
for local content creators and inspire creative networks with established
producers and institutions across Canada. This year, we are offering many
different information and consultations sessions with institutions like
Bell Media, the Canada Media Fund, the National Screen Institute and
Raindance Canada.
As part of the festivals youth component we host the Dominion Diamond
Youth Delegate Program, where local youth produce work with professional
music video directors and engage in festival events over the weekend.
We would also like to thank our film festival partners l'association Francoculturelle de Yellowknife (AFCY) for assisting us in providing excellent French
language programming this year! If you are unable to make it to Yellowknife
for the festivities in October, stay tuned for the YKIFF On-The-Road Regional
NWT Tour which will bring a selection of this years screenings to communities
throughout the NWT after the festival concludes in Yellowknife.
We hope you to see you out enjoying the 2015 YKIFF program and all of our
special events.
Many thanks to all of our partners and sponsors for their generous support,
and an extra special thanks to our incredible volunteers!
Festival Director, Jeremy Emerson
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The NWT Professional Media Association
is here to foster our film industry in the North.
We are proud to support the
Yellowknife International Film Festival.
The full story on the issues
that matter.
monday, sept 28 - shorts - museum @ 7pm
weetigo
22 MIN | JEREMY AUGUST LAFOND | 2014
In the remote reaches of Canada’s far north lurks a mysterious phenomenon.
For centuries trappers and hunters have told stories of a crazed demonic-like
being. Is it real or myth? Three people will find out the truth.
astray
5:11 MIN | MARY CAROLINE COX | 2014
A woman of the north comes to terms with her loneliness and isolation in the
Canadian sub-arctic.
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wedding on mussel island
3:40 MIN | LULU KEATING
When my son fell in love, he was 16 years old. He wanted to get married, but I
told him to wait. It was 10 years before their unorthodox wedding.
freeride
20 MIN | KEVIN MAGLIULO & SAMUEL CLOUTIER | 2015
A limo driver finds an unassuming kid he agrees to take home after
accommodating his clients, but the kid turns out to be too much to handle.
 15 MIN INTERMISSION 
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yellowknife
40 MIN | NIELS HOLSTEIN KAA | 2015
Director Niels Holstein Kaa is unhappy in Copenhagen. Hoping to regain faith
in happiness and love he leaves Copenhagen and embarks on a journey to
Yellowknife, a small Northwestern town in Canada.
tuesday, sept 29 - museum @ 7pm
permafrost of the peel plateau
17 MIN | CHRISTINE WENMAN | 2015
The Northwest Territories is experiencing some of the world's most dramatic
climate change impacts. This short documentary follows the work of a team
of scientists and Fort McPherson community members as they seek to
better understand the cause and effects of mega-slumps - huge landscape
disturbances that are changing the land that the Tetl'it Gwich'in and their
ancestors have known for thousands of years.
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aviliaq: entwined
15 MIN | ALETHEA ARNAQUQ-BARI | 2014
Entwined is set in a 1950's arctic outpost camp, and tells the story of two Inuit
lesbians struggling to stay together in a new world run by outsiders.
sol
76 MIN | MARIE-HÉLÉNE-COUSINEAU & SUSAN AVINGAQ | 2014
SOL is a feature documentary that explores the mysterious death of a
young Inuk man, Solomon Tapatia Uyarasuk. He is found dead in an RCMP
detachment in a remote Inuit community and the locals suspect murder but the
police suggest suicide. As the documentary investigates the truth to Solomon’s
death it sheds light on the underlying social issues of Canada’s North that has
resulted in this region claiming one of the highest youth suicide rates in the
world. The film explores how the pain of suicide has affected the people in
these small northern communities and their resilience and determination to
create a better future for their people.
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wednesday, sept 30 - nacc
wildlike @ 7pm
104 MIN | FRANK HALL GREEN | 2014
Mackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent by her struggling
mother to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. Although Uncle seems like a
supportive caretaker and friend, the relationship turns and Mackenzie is forced
to run. Trying to make her way back to Seattle alone to find her absent mother,
Mackenzie only winds up deeper in the Alaskan interior. Lost and with no one
else to turn to, she shadows a loner backpacker, Bartlett, an unlikely father
figure with scars of his own. Together, they cross the wilderness and discover
sanctuary in the last frontier.
fish out of water @ 9pm
9 MIN | KIRSTEN CARTHEW | 2015
Deep in the heart of an environmental wasteland, a lone woman fishes for food
and catches more than she can manage.
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berkshire county
83 MIN | AUDREY CUMMINGS | 2014
Kylie Winters, a bullied and self-loathing teen, reluctantly agrees to babysit
at an isolated country mansion on Halloween night. When a small boy in a
pig mask appears at the door trick-or-treating, Kylie's night transforms into a
horrifying and violent cat-and-mouse game. She must go beyond what she
ever thought possible if she and the children are to survive the night.
thursday, oct 1 - nacc
guibord s’en va-t-en guerre
(my internship in canada) @ 6:30pm
108 MIN | PHILIPPE FALARDEAU | 2015
Steve Guibord, an independent Member of Parliament from northern
Quebec who quite unexpectedly finds himself in the position of holding the
tie-breaking vote on whether Canada will go to war in the Middle East.[1]
Embarking on a tour of his constituency to evaluate public opinion, various
lobby groups spin the debate farther and farther out of control and Guibord's
confusion ultimately forces the decision onto Souverain (Irdens Exantus), his
Haitian immigrant intern.
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shadow of a giant @ 8:40pm
30 MIN | CLARK FERGUSON | 2014
Shadow of a Giant is an interactive web documentary that tells the story of
one Canada’s largest environmental disasters, Yellowknife’s Giant Mine. Buried
in collapsing chambers, within the municipal boundary of Yellowknife, and
beside the 9th largest lake in the world, sits 237,000 tons of the highly toxic
contaminant, arsenic trioxide, a byproduct of the defunct gold mine.
 15 MIN INTERMISSION 
after the last river
88 MIN | VICTORIA LEAN | 2015
Filmed over five years, After the Last River is a point of view (POV) documentary
that follows Attawapiskat’s journey from obscurity and into the international
spotlight during the protests of Idle No More. Filmmaker Victoria Lean
connects personal stories from the First Nation to entwined mining industry
agendas and government policies, painting a complex portrait of a territory
that is a imperiled homeland to some and a profitable new frontier for others.
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friday, oct 2 - nacc
all the Time in the world @ 7pm
87 MIN | SUZANNE CROCKER | 2014
All the Time in the World is a thought provoking and personal documentary
that offers a sociological commentary on what today's life has evolved into for
most of us and what happens when a courageous family chooses a seemingly
simpler life
les loups (the Wolves) @ 9pm
107 MIN | SOPHIE DERASPE | 2015
Elie, a young woman from the city, has come to a remote North Atlantic
island. It's the spring thaw, and she is here to convalesce and get to know the
community. The annual seal hunt is in full swing, and Elie feels both drawn to
and repelled by the men engaged in it. In this isolated world, people's lives
and deaths are shaped by the brute forces of nature. Elie's presence arouses
curiosity and mistrust. Maria, the village matriarch and den mother, seeks to
uncover the secret reason behind Elie's visit. Wolves explores the profound
need for belonging.
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saturday, oct 3 - nacc
shorts @ 4pm
96 MIN INCLUDING INTERMISSION
THE YAWNING | 7 MIN
METIS OF THE
NORTH | 5 MIN
HICKEY GONE
WRONG | 10 MIN
WITHIN THE
VEIL | 8 MIN
BIHTTOS | 14 MIN
 15 MIN INTERMISSION 
THE BEAR | 11 MIN
AL ALPINISTA | 3 MIN
JIM ROBBS YUKON |
1O:30 MIN
IRON HEAD | 9 MIN
STOCK - A SHORT
FILM | 5 MIN
A WINTER
JINGLE | 2 MIN
the pass system @ 7pm
51 MIN | ALEX WILLIAMS | 2015 | ALEX WILLIAMS IN ATTENDANCE
THE PASS SYSTEM illuminates a shocking time in Canada’s history when it
embraced racial segregation: willfully and illegally denying Indigenous peoples
the basic freedom just to leave their reserves, and jailing them when they
did so without a pass. Cree, Soto, Dene, Ojibwe and Blackfoot elders of the
prairie land where this took place tell their stories of living under and resisting
the system, and link their experiences to today. Acclaimed Cree actor and
activist Tantoo Cardinal (Dances with Wolves, Legends of the Fall) narrates this
investigative look into a little-known Canada. Music by Aboriginal cellist and
composer Cris Derksen.
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turbo kid @ 8:30pm
93 MIN | FRANÇOIS SIMARD, ANOUK WHISSELL & YOANN-KARL WHISSELL
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a comic book fan dons the persona of his
favourite hero to save his enthusiastic friend and fight a tyrannical overlord.
sunday, oct 4 - museum @ 1pm
oscar nominated shorts: animation
77 MIN | VARIOUS | 2015
A SINGLE LIFE
FEAST
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ME AND MY
MOULTON
THE BIGGER
PICTURE
THE DAM
KEEPER
sunday, oct 4 - nacc
way up north:
an arctic symphony @ 5pm
75 MIN | P.J. MARCELLINO & HERMON FARAHI | OFFICIAL PREMIERE: SPRING 2016
Performances by Leanne Goose, Abe Drennan & YK Youth Choir
Filmed across Canada, but primarily in the NWT and Nunavut, Way Up North
is part travelogue, part social issues documentary, part music doc. Following
dozens of award-winning musicians as they look back at the origins of their
music and the issues that informed and inspired it.
l’empreinte (subtitles) @ 7pm
86 MIN | CAROLE POLIQUIN & YVAN DUBUC | 2015
L'acteur Roy Dupuis part à la recherche des origines des Canadiens Français
en visitant le lieu où Champlain a débarqué en 1603. En rencontrant des
historiens, des anthropologues, des professeurs et même une poétesse,
il tente de découvrir les fondements de l'identité québécoise. Celle-ci
serait intimement liée aux relations que les ancêtres entretenaient avec les
communautés des Premières Nations. Ces dernières valorisaient l'apport du
groupe sur l'individu et cet héritage semble se retrouver dans les valeurs des
populations métissées qui forment aujourd'hui la Belle Province. Devant les
ruptures du passé, un nouveau dialogue doit se tenir.
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cued him from his violent father. Daewit becomes
a man who is weary of living and noticed that he
inherited some of his father’s characteristics. After
an enigmatic journey full of privations and in quest
daewit @ 9pm
for identity he finds his peace in forgiveness.
15 MIN | DAVID JANSEN | 2015
A wolf child, a cat, an angel. Daewit is rescued from his violent father and
grows up far away from his family among wolves. He is released into a world in
which he grows from a child to a man weary of life. Embarking on a mysterious
journey to find his own identity, he encounters great hardship but ultimately
finds peace in forgiveness.
trapline
38 MIN | DUSTIN CHOK | 2015
Bill wanted to be a trapper for as far back as he could remember. He created
a romantic notion of life on the land as a young boy. Succeeding that vision to
become one of Alberta’s true professional trappers is where Trapline begins.
Trapline is an exploration of a dream realized. It follows the philosophies
wrapped up in the subsistent existence that key narrator and focus of the film,
Bill Abercrombie, has forged for himself.
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workshops
filmmaker bootcamp
social media &
with annie bradley crowdfunding toolkit
Sept 28-29
intensive
YK Inn Meeting Room
information session
with bell media’s
michele mcmahon
Oct 1
YK Inn Meeting Room @ 1pm
producing with
anne marie gelinas
Sept 30
YK Inn Meeting Room @ 10am
Oct 2
YK Inn Meeting Room @ 10am
canada media fund
info session
nsi information
session
Sept 30
Suite 201, Nunasi Building
Revelation Room @ 1pm
rights acquisition/
chain of title
presentation with
angelika heim
Oct 1
YK Inn Meeting Room @ 10am
Oct 2
YK Inn Meeting Room @ 1pm
stunts for writers
and directors
Oct 3
YK Inn Meeting Room @ 12pm
stunts with maja Aro
Oct 4
TBD @ 11am
For more information on our workshop,
visit ykfilmfest.com/workshops
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guests
emcees
Chris Vajcner
Loren McGinnis
Annie Bradley
Janna Graham
Jaimy Warner
Hilary Bird
Anne-Marie Gelinas
Jay Bulckaert
Michele McMahon
William Greenland
Maja Aro
Kevin O'Reilly
Angelika Heim
Camilla MacEachern
Alex Williams
Karen Mitton
Suzanne Crocker
Ryan McMahon
Kevin Magliulo
Scott McQueen
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